on the subject of american public schools

[rone]

<dem-> eh, what they teach hardly matters.  american culture glorifies stupidity and ignorance
<ronebofh> and i wish i knew why.
<venividi> it's what you get when you cross egalitarianism with mediocrity

Comments

[cheesetruck.livejournal.com]

No, I'm being literal.

I _cannot_ think of any CULTURAL things which glorify stupidity. I don't watch telvision either, save one show from the UK that I watched a bit ago that is no longer on; and I continually hear from tv addicts how crap it is and then whining when it's sweeps week that the shows aren't on. My point was that the majority of references that people will give me about how stupid things are would be from TV, and I don't consider that cultural.

However, a recent suggestion somewhere (maybe even in Rone's past bloggage) made the point that TV _could_ be considered today's cultural references, as that's where the common man gets his 'culture.' Books and plays and so forth were such a while ago; but are now 'elite' status, so to speak. Was an interesting point. Doesn't change MY view that it's not cultural in this sense, but I'm using semantics to my own advantage (:

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

*PHWEET* Two minutes for playing silly buggers with semantics.